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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

The craziness is fading... BUT HERE ARE MY RED CARPET PICTURES!

I don't think this will ever get old. I'm the runty farm kid, he grew up behind the feed mill. And here we are, pulling up to the Saddledome in a nice shiny... Yellow Checker Cab... because that's how we unfamous non-rock-stars roll....and there's the red carpet and the deafening roar of screaming fans.

The red carpet people open the car doors for us, and I swung my huge high heeled boots out and stood up, clutching my husband's hand, blinking at the crowd. Last year, it went too fast; I vowed that if I ever got a chance to do it again, I'd do it right. Slow it down. Interact with the people, you know, the fans, even though they're not my fans. I'll just borrow them for a few seconds. I'll make my time beside the spotlight really count!

But this year's carpet was pretty short. And once I was there, I sort of melted into shaky hands and trembling lips and that awful dry-top-lip-stuck-to-teeth problem.

Who is that? Do you know them? Is that the guy from that band with the.... no that's not him... is it her, is she famous? She's not Alanis is she? No, too short. I don't get it... WHERE ARE ALL THE FAMOUS PEOPLE????

It was bizarrely comical seeing the confused faces. I don't think all these people realized how many unrecognizable people would be strutting, or, ambling dazedly, down the red carpet. I didn't bother to yell over the noise that I am accompanying a Juno nominee who was last year's winner. Most people don't even know what a recording engineer does. (Including a few people I chatted to at the after-parties, haha!) So we just walked, stunned, amazed at how different this one was than last year's, knowing that we will never get used to this... it will always be amazing.

We were with three other nominees, which was good because then we looked stunned as a larger, more secure group! Man, those screamers were loud!

Further down the line, I took another picture. It was more like this:

Well, I'm not really sure who they are, but I think I'll smile at them anyways, because they might be somebody and I'm just not hip enough to know them, so I'll smile.

Um, should I take a picture of them? Maybe I will just in case, y'know, like if I see them in the paper tomorrow because it turns out they really are somebodies, and then I can tell everybody that I took their picture! But maybe I should save room on the camera for when Avril gets here...

So here we are, on the way into the building. I was trying to solve the dry-top-lip-stuck-to-upper-teeth problem when the camera went off. And of course, my lovely cute husband gives his reliable smile. He is the most solid person on the planet!

We tried to get another picture, without the whole stuck lip thing, but of course, I am the most unreliable person, and just can't be trusted to behave, even in pictures...during fits of nervous giggles...

Who are these people? You know what, I'm just gonna stand here until Feist shows up....

I'd LOVE pink, too, but that WOULD be copying... the girl-who-ruined-my-hair suggested blue, but I'm not a blue girl...CindyD, you seem like a hydrangea-blue kinda gal... I think that would look great!

The beautiful dress was my Saturday night black tie outfit. It was kinda cold on Sunday. It's usually cold in April in this country... so I opted for standard rock concert wear. Hey, it's not like anybody else took pictures of us...! Last year I wore the pink dress for red carpet and I froze. (I'm going to wear it to my daughter's gr 8 graduation in June, hehehehe)

KC YES! That is the fabulous coat you gave me! It's been called the Lenny Kravitz coat and the Chris Robinson coat. It is fab, like the person who gave it to me!

Katy, I'm "famous" to the important people!

Coffeypot, thanks! And, thanks!

Anita, you can do it. It's not copying. (I mean, Avril did it too, why not you?)

Cindy, I would have loved to hear that conversation!"Ha ha ha ha ha! NO."

Tod- They were really confused. I knew taking pictures of the crowd would totally mess everybody up!!!

About Me

I ride, I read, I write. I share my life with a husband, two teenagers, a Pug, a scary house cat, and three horses. Pink is my favourite colour. I used to hate it but then my brain got rearranged and now I like it so much I sometimes dye my hair pink. I'm slightly crazy and I believe we should all stop saying crazy like it's a bad thing. I write novels - like as in, I start them and actually finish them - and I fully intend to be a published author. I teach people how to ride horses for a living, and I love my job! All I ever wanted to do was ride my ponies and write my stories. Hey, that's what I do! Lucky, lucky me. Join me for horses, trucks, Johnny Depp, antidepressants, beer, trashy pop culture, interior desecrating, Jesus, John Deere, and rock stars. Yeeaahhh! We'll laugh and cry, it'll be fun, c'mon.